In an earlier article, we recommended using your mobile phone to help organise and track your home move. The phrase “there’s an app for everything” certainly holds true to this industry; there are a number of home moving apps for this very purpose. Over the next few months, we’re going to review them. Our first is Home Move Pro - let’s check it out.
OnDemandWorld are fascinated by linking technology to the physical world. In developing Home Move Pro, they clearly sought help from industry experts and the results have paid off. The app is not fancy, nor does it claim to have extraordinary or innovative features. Home Move Pro simply uses all the available tools in a modern smartphone to cleanly and logically organise your house move.
What makes a home moving app? Essentially, it’s just a glorified notepad. You need to list items, take photos and have checkboxes to keep track of what you’ve packed. The skill is not these features, but the way in which they are presented and organised.
What makes Home Move Pro great is that they’ve given considerable thought to the context of a house removal. Rather than begin with a blank slate, the app comes preloaded with menu items like Packing, Contacts, To-Do, New Home Address and Notes. Within each menu is a subfolder, and within each subfolder is a list of items. These are very easily customised, and you’re able to take photos and attach them to specific rooms or items. With voice memos, location pins and ready-to-use checkboxes, Home Move Pro ensures that everything is documented neatly and labelled clearly. Like we said, it isn’t fancy, but it works!
Most people don’t move often. Home Move Pro is a great one-time-only app that you can enjoy in the moment and delete when you’re done. There’s no registration needed, and the app itself doesn’t cost a penny. All that you gain from the paid version is ad removal, so you’re not even missing much if you choose the free version.
All in all, this is a nifty little app that does what it says on the tin. It’ll save you both time and sanity in writing these lists from scratch, so it’s a hearty thumbs up from 1 Van 1 Man.
